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Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus has been chosen to head Bangladesh’s interim government after student protests sparked an uprising that toppled the former leader

The ex-partner of former Argentine President Alberto Fernández has accused him of physically and emotionally abusing her

Seoul’s Gangnam District says it will probe almost 2,000 residents to check if they have crypto holdings as part of a crackdown on tax evasion.

Mysuru (Karnataka): Questioning veteran BJP leader B S Yediyurappa's «moral right» to demand his resignation in connection with the Mysuru Urban Development Authority (MUDA) site allotment 'scam', Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Wednesday urged that the former should retire from public life as he is an accused in a Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act case. Yediyurappa had recently demanded that Siddaramaiah has to resign before the BJP-JD(S)' protest march from Bengaluru against the MUDA site allotment 'scam' reaches Mysuru. The week-long Bengaluru-Mysuru padayatre (foot march) has sought to highlight the alleged fraudulent allotment of sites to land losers by MUDA, including to Siddaramaiah's wife Parvathi. «Yediyurappa has been accused in a POCSO case, chargesheet has been filed. Because of the court's mercy he is outside and not in jail. One cannot get bail in such cases,» Siddaramaiah said. Addressing reporters here, he said, «What moral right does Yediyurappa have? At this age he is caught in a POCSO case...He should retire from public life. At 81 years of age he is accused of sexually assaulting a girl and is caught in a POCSO case… First let him retire from public life. There should be truth (in allegations against me) to seek my resignation.»

Amit Singh Negi has been appointed additional secretary in the PMO as part of a major top-level reshuffle effected by the Centre. A 1999-batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of the Uttarakhand cadre, Negi is currently joint secretary in the Department of Expenditure under the Union Ministry of Finance. He has been appointed as additional secretary in the Prime Minister's Office (PMO), according to an order issued by the personnel ministry. Samir Ashwin Vakil, a 1998-batch Indian Revenue Service (Income Tax) officer, has been appointed director in the Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO) under the Union Ministry of Corporate Affairs for a tenure of five years, it said.

The months long concern over interest rates that broker-dealers pay on cash clients hold in investment advisory accounts took another turn this past week, with Morgan Stanley on Monday revealing that the Securities and Exchange Commission is seeking “information” about certain accounts and Wells Fargo & Co. last week disclosing it is attempting to resolve the SEC’s investigation into such cash accounts.

Microsoft blamed Delta Air Lines on Tuesday for its dayslong struggle to recover from a global cyber outage that led it to cancel more than 6,000 flights. The flight disruptions stranded hundreds of thousands of travelers and are estimated to cost the Atlanta-based airline $500 million. Last week, Delta's CEO Ed Bastian told CNBC that while the airline heavily relies on Microsoft and CrowdStrike, both tech companies had failed to deliver an «exceptional service.» In the interview, he also said that Microsoft had the «most fragile platform.»

CBI) is probing Hindalco Industries Ltd (HIL) and a former director of the ministry of environment and forest (MoEF) in a corruption case. According to the first information report (FIR), CBI has booked the company, Dr T Chandini, the then director of MoEF, and unknown persons under certain sections of the Prevention of Corruption (PC) Act and Section 120 (B) pertaining to criminal conspiracy of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). «This is an old matter pertaining to 2014-15. These mines were de-allocated as part of the government's de-allocation process. This is a matter of public record where more than 100 mines were de-allocated,» a Hindalco spokesperson told ET.

Briefing occurred Tuesday in Renton, Washington, detailing «defect» from supplier.

South Korean prosecutors are set to try a crypto market maker they think masterminded a $59.6 million altcoin-themed “scam coin” fraud.

The National Transportation Safety Board is about to hold a two-day hearing into the blowout of a panel from the side of a Boeing 737 Max airliner

South Korean regulators are investigating value fluctuations of the altcoin AVAIL on Bithumb last month “on suspicion of price manipulation.”

Officials from the European Union’s executive commission said Monday that TikTok has agreed to end a rewards feature that raised concerns about encouraging excessive screen time and its effects on children

Antitrust tensions are heating up in the chipmaking industry

Enforcement Directorate told Supreme Court that the two prime accused senior bureaucrats in the Nagrik Apurti Nigam (PDS) scam of Chhattisgarh, were in contact with the judge who granted bail to one of the two. According to ED, Anil Kumar Tuteja and Alok Shukla were speaking to the High Court judge who «granted bail to Shukla in October, 2019.» ED claims that the two accused were in contact with the judge through Satish Chandra Verma, the then advocate general. While the probe agency has not named the judge in the affidavit filed on August 1, contents from WhatsApp chat details linked to the case found in annexures state that Justice Arvind Kumar Chandel was the judge in question, who was reached through former state chief secretary Ajay Singh. Justice Chandel was tranferred to Patna High Court this year.

Supreme Court on Monday took suo motu cognisance of the deaths of three civil services aspirants in the basement of a coaching centre here and sought responses from the Centre and the Delhi government. A bench of Justices Surya Kant and Ujjal Bhuyan said the recent incident in the national capital was an eye-opener for all. «These places (coaching centres) have become death chambers. Coaching institutes can operate online unless there is full compliance of the safety norms and basic norms for a dignified life. Coaching centres are playing with the lives of aspirants who come from different parts of the country,» the bench said. On Friday, the Delhi High Court transferred the probe into the deaths of the three students at Rau's IAS Study Circle in Old Rajinder Nagar from the city police to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) «to ensure the public has no doubt over the investigation».

Delhi High Court has designated a special CBI Court to expedite the trial of India's biggest bank fraud. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has charged Dheeraj Wadhawan, Kapil Wadhawan-promoters of embattled Dewan Housing Finance Ltd (DHFL)-and several others in the alleged loan fraud of Rs 34,614 crore. The orders of the Delhi High Court designating a special CBI Judge to exclusively deal with the DHFL case were received on August 1. It is pertinent to mention that considering the gravity of the case and the enormous amount of documents filed by the CBI, number of accused and hundreds of witnesses involved, a special CBI Court had written to the High Court. In April this year, a special CBI Court had shared the information of the case with the High Court with a request to designate «one special court for doing this matter only». Special CBI Judge Ashwani Kumar Sarpal, in a judicial order passed on April 27, had highlighted the fact that the documents filed by the CBI run into over 330,000 pages and are kept in 26 trunks.

Tirumala Express, with four of its bogies catching fire while stationary. Fortunately, no passengers were aboard the affected bogies at the time, so there were no injuries or casualties.

National Investigation Agency (NIA) has filed a charge sheet against two accused persons in a case related to the arrest of two Maoist cadres of Kuyemari area committee of proscribed terrorist organisation — CPI (Maoist) — while carrying arms and explosives to attack the security forces. The accused persons have been identified as Vinod Awalam and Ashu Korsa. The chargesheet was filed before the Special Court, Jagdalpur, under various sections of Indian Penal Code, Arms Act, Explosives Substances Act and UA(P) Act. Both the accused persons are members of CPI (Maoist) and have been found to be involved in the conspiracy of carrying out attacks on security forces. The duo were apprehended along with weapons and other incriminating material from Mujalgondi village in Kanker district.

Kejriwal's close aide Bibhav Kumar in a case concerning alleged assault on AAP MP Swati Maliwal was «necessary» and police strictly followed the law while doing so, the Delhi High Court has said. The court, which on Friday dismissed Kumar's petition that claimed his arrest was illegal, said in its written judgment that there was no merit in his plea. Kumar, currently in judicial custody, allegedly assaulted Maliwal at Kejriwal's official residence on May 13. He was arrested by the Delhi Police on May 18. In his plea, Kumar had sought a direction to declare his arrest as illegal and in gross violation of the provisions of section 41A (notice of appearance before police officer) of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) and against the mandate of the law.